I have also down graded to the MPS driver from 9.0. We've been running the server pretty heavily since then and no lockups have occurred since. It has been about a week.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:14 PM, olivier <olivier77...@gmail.com> wrote: > For what it's worth, I think I might have solved my problem by reverting to > an older version of the mps driver. I checked out a recent version of > 9-STABLE and reversed the changes in > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=230592 (perhaps there > was a simpler way of reverting to the older mps driver). So far so good, no > hang even when hammering the file system. > > This does not conclusively prove that the new LSI mps driver is at fault, > but that seems to be a likely explanation. > > Thanks to everybody who pointed me in the right direction. Hope this helps > others who run into similar problems with 9.1 > Olivier > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:14 AM, olivier <olivier77...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> Google for "zfs deadman". This is already committed upstream and I think >>> that it >>> is imported into FreeBSD, but I am not sure... Maybe it's imported just >>> into the >>> vendor area and is not merged yet. >>> >> >> Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind. The logic for panicking makes >> sense. >> As far as I can tell you're correct that deadman is in the vendor area but >> not merged. Any idea when it might make it into 9-STABLE? >> Thanks >> Olivier >> >> >> >> >>> So, when enabled this logic would panic a system as a way of letting know >>> that >>> something is wrong. You can read in the links why panic was selected for >>> this job. >>> >>> And speaking FreeBSD-centric - I think that our CAM layer would be a >>> perfect place >>> to detect such issues in non-ZFS-specific way. >>> >>> -- >>> Andriy Gapon >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Reed A. Cartwright, PhD Assistant Professor of Genomics, Evolution, and Bioinformatics School of Life Sciences Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics The Biodesign Institute Arizona State University _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
